June 2015 Archives

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Lithuania, 1893. Charles Wainman did what many have done, before and since — he didn’t finish his meal.  Instead, he tucked away a small piece of cheese — a going away present, as he left for Johannesburg — to take with him.


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By now, you know about agile methodologies and how they can help improve your software development efforts.


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Pass on insights, knowledge and skills. Whether it's some advice for a friend on helping them look for a new job, or guidance for a child embarking on their first day at school, many of us regularly use our knowledge and experience to help and guide others.


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Willingness to share skills, knowledge, and expertise. A good mentor is willing to teach what he/she knows and accept the mentee where they currently are in their professional development. Good mentors can remember what it was like just starting out in the field.


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ASSOCIATIONS NOW, May 2010 , Community now Summary: Ready to be a mentor? Here are 14 tips to make the most of your mentorship. Rating: Rate This Item Mentoring can be a challenge that is well worth your time and effort.


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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward


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In the early 1900s, an epidemic hit the American South. Called pellagra — Italian for “sour skin” — the disease caused a leprosy-like outbreak of skin lesions on the afflicted, as seen here.


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In the late 1800s, a Bengal tiger known as the Champawat Tiger was terrorizing Nepal. While tigers, typically, do not attack people unprovoked, the Champawat Tiger was the grand exception to this rule of thumb. Before the century was out, this particular tiger would kill at least 200 people.


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Beach volleyball has been an official Olympic sport since 1996, debuting four years earlier as a demonstration sport.


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On August 12, 1898, the guns of Spanish and American battleships fell silent. The two sides, warring in the Pacific and Caribbean, came to a cease-fire and the Spanish-American War came to a close.


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grunt-perfbudget is a Grunt.js task for enforcing a performance budget (more on performance budgets). It uses the wonderful webpagetest.org and the WebPagetest API Wrapper for NodeJS created by Marcel Duran.


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For centuries, the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Turks were at war. Italy’s present-day Fruili region — in the country’s northeast — was a particular hotspot, often finding itself the theater of battles between these two nation-states.


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Magnets and magnetism are, to the unenlightened, akin to magic.  Give a pair of magnets to a nursery schooler and they will jump in shock when the two inexplicably (to them, at least) fuse together, too tight for little hands to pry apart.


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The paragraph you’re about to read — as in, the one that follows this one — is almost entirely true. There’s one word which isn’t quite right. But don’t worry! I’ll let you know which word is wrong afterward. Ready? Great. Let’s go.


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Carbonated water. High fructose corn syrup. Caramel color. Phosphoric acid. Natural flavors. Caffeine. If you are in the United States and look at the side of a can of Coca-Cola, that’s what you’ll see listed under “Ingredients.


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Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server’s response and even generate client code.


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motd.sh dynamic message of the day (~/.motd) generator for Mac and Linux.


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Now that you know you shouldn't read on your tablet at bedtime, you might want to go back to reading magazines. One of my favorites bedtime reads (don't laugh) is Consumer Reports. It's interesting enough to engage me, but doesn't keep me awake from overstimulation.


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If you’ve ever taken a subway in a major city — or if you’ve been anywhere else that large numbers of passersby use as a thoroughfare — you’ve probably seen a street performer or two.


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Every once in a while — less often than a few years ago — you’ll open a bag of potato chips and see one which isn’t like the others. It’s green-ish, especially around the edges, like the salty tasty snack chip above. And it is safe to eat.


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We take the Honda Gold Wing for granted, really. To an entire generation of riders, it’s always been there, the gentleman’s touring rig, the butt of jokes made by young riders that involve excessive modifications and vests with destination patches.


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Me API is a personal API built on Node.js that allows for extensible integrations. This is a central repository for your entire online profile. You get to host the content how you want - what endpoints you want exposed and what data you want accessible.


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In many cases, the people hanging around in the background on television and movies — never saying anything that the audience can hear — are placed there by the directors and producers creating the film. They’re called extras.


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Let’s say you were an incoming freshman at Harvard University. You’d get your dorm assignment, pick your classes, buy your books, and set up a meal plan. A lot of those things require — or at least, are facilitated by — an official ID card.


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